The Raven...

I happened to bring in The Raven on Monday so I already had a little jump start on this blog, but I think that the response has changed since I read it a second time.  At first, and the reason I brought the poem in, I wanted to contrast the short, silly, cutesy poems that I had brought in before with the dark and "dreary" tone of The Raven which is one of the random poems that I tend to enjoy.

The rhythm of The Raven is what first brings the reader into the poem, then once you are there you get stuck into the rhyming scheme, and before you know it you have read the entire three-page poem.  The other point that I would like to mention about why I like The Raven is that it tells a full story starting with the man sitting in his chamber, then the rapping on the door, he goes to answer it an no one is there, then there is tapping n his window and when he answers that tapping, a raven flies in a positions itself above the door, and when the man questions the raven as to the memory of Lenore, the bird replies with Nevermore.  Now the raven sits above his chamber door, to taunt him of the late Lenore, and his spirits shall be lifted nevermore.